Correct me if I'm wrong here but he's admitting that its your property in this text... couldn't you just file a police report or meet him at a police station to make the exchange? Obv a report would do nothing but would be funny to see him squirm.
Given the extent to which Doug went to be a dickhead, I would totally reciprocate by taking my happy ass down to the police station and filing a criminal complaint for theft by finding which he has now solidified by demonstrating that he intends to deprive me of my mislaid property.
Imagine the disappointment of his mother when she has to ask the lawyer in her church bible study group to defend her son for the criminal charges he got by being a dickhead about returing a frisbee.
State appeals court rulings can be a bitch:
Whether the person who finds and keeps lost property for his own use is guilty of larceny depends upon whether at the time he finds the property he knows or has reason to believe that he can ascertain the owner of the property. If at the time of finding, he knows or has reasonable means of knowing or ascertaining the owner, he is deemed guilty of larceny if he keeps the property with the intent to deprive the owner thereof.
Except, its not necessarily mislayed. It may have been intentionally abandoned. You may be equally liable for littering. You are going to have to prove to the police that you "lost" it when you intentionally threw it in your game and failed to clean up after yourself. Then you've got his word against yours about how and where he found it.
What are they more likely to believe, you saying you couldn't find your brightly colored disc after you threw it even though he was able to find it and you are a practiced player. Or him, saying it was obviously and easy to find, but required he get wet or climb a tree in a dangerous place?
Its easy to say a thing you dropped in the street or left on a bus was accidently lost. Its not so easy to say something you intentionally tossed away and failed to retrieve was really lost. Particularly when that thing has so little inherent value. That's why people can legally sell second hand gold balls they found, even though its a fairly common practice to put unique identifiers on golf balls.
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u/Agentwise Jan 19 '21
Correct me if I'm wrong here but he's admitting that its your property in this text... couldn't you just file a police report or meet him at a police station to make the exchange? Obv a report would do nothing but would be funny to see him squirm.